During the April 8 edition of his Fox News program, Sean Hannity again falsely claimed that President Obama has proposed to “cut not only missile defense, but our defenses dramatically.” In fact, the Obama administration has proposed increasing defense spending by billions of dollars over the amount enacted in fiscal year 2009. As CNN.com noted on April 6, “The proposed overall fiscal year 2010 Defense Department budget is almost $534 billion, or nearly $664 billion when including the costs of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The current Pentagon budget totals slightly over $513 billion, or almost $655 billion including the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.” Media Matters for America has documented numerous instances of Hannity repeating this false claim. According to the White House, the administration's proposed budget for fiscal year 2010 requests $533.7 billion for the Department of Defense, “an increase of four percent from the 2009 enacted level of $513.3 billion,” plus $130 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010.

From the April 8 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

HANNITY: This has been, in my view, a very dangerous week for this country -- and I'm being serious. When we have Democrats kissing up to a brutal, murdering dictator by the name of Fidel Castro -- we just played that tape for you just moments ago -- we're going to meet with now Iran without preconditions; we have missiles fired off over North Korea, and the president says they broke the rules, we're going to go back to the U.N., and he's going to cut, not only missile defense, but our defenses dramatically.

I'm thinking they don't understand the nature of the last 100 years in human history and how many 100-plus million people died under dictatorial regimes. Am I wrong?